"J. P. Gilliver (John)"
news alt.windows7.general, wrote:

[snip]

I don't personally consider internal drives to be at significant
risk.

You've obviously never had an aggressive virus. (Nor have I, but I
do read about them!)

In the sense of an aggressive virus, what difference does external
that's connected and online vs internal make? If the virus is well
written, it'll wait until you connect writable external media again
anyhow.

Ransomware on the other hand is a seperate issue.

I don't have experience of external ones in cases. All my use of
external drives have been using bare drives, either with a "cable"
(though obviously with some electronics in it) or, more recently,
a dock. The only ones I've had trouble with were ones that were
giving trouble before removal from what they came out of.

I've had little bad experience so far with external drives, but, I
don't run them 24/7 either. I use them for getting data or putting
data on them and then they're powered off and placed back into
storage. As, well, if something were to happen from a
malware/security break standpoint and the drive was still online to
the machine that suffered the attack, it's data is up for grabs (or
worse) too. Being an external drive in the physical sense doesn't
matter in that case.


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